What is Code Segment? With Example

Code Segment : The code segment contains a program's instructions. The declaration syntax is

.CODE           name

Where name is the optional name of the segment(there is no need for a name in a SMALL program, because the assembler will generate an error).

Inside a code segment, instructions are organized as procedures. The simplest procedure definition is

name    PROC

;body   of   the   procedure

name    ENDP

where name is the name of the procedure, PROC and ENDP are pseudo-ops that delineate the procedure.

Here is an example of a code segment definition :

.CODE

MAIN PROC

;main procedure instructions

MAIN ENDP

;other procedure go here